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| (...) Robolab comes with the RCX firmware and I agree it will probably be a lot easier to grasp for your son than NXC/NBC. The advantage of the latter though is that it is completely free. Since you have a serial tower you'll need to load whatever (...) (16 years ago, 24-Oct-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Newsgroup Please
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| (...) OK, just to confirm, you've been using lugnet.robotics for this (not lugnet.robotics.rcx)? I guess what's maybe not generally known is that lugnet.robotics.rcx is actually a newsgroup and not just a hierarchy. Its charter specifically includes (...) (20 years ago, 26-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | another comparison
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| We have compared the sampling and computing speed of NXT and RCX. NXT uses standard firmware 1.03 and is programmed with the LabVIEW toolkit. RCX is programmed with ULTIMATE ROBOLAB. Both bricks do the same thing: computing the DFT on a small (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | USB on winXP/2k problem: cannot download
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| Dear All, I have installed cygwin, compiled brickOS and tried to download the firmware and software. I cannot make firmdl3 or dll to work: "Error 2: Opening USB" The same error when the tower is attached and when it is not. I can download the (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lego and steppers
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| (...) Which counter are you referring to? If believe that if you are using the standard Lego firmware, e.g. by using NQC, and you are using the "pulse/edge" counting modes, you can detect an edge only once every 300 ms or so, which is fairly slow. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Scout vs. RIS 1.5
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| (...) I do not have the Scout, and have been reading its SDK document in order to decide whether I should get one. The new features in Scout's firmware are nice, but not essential. If you really need these features with your RCX, you can use an (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ultimate ROBOLAB
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| (...) I think Ultimate Robolab sounds very cool. Unfortunately, I think some Robolab users may be confused by the name and think that their Robolab programs will be completely reuseable in Ultimate Robolab. As far as I can figure this is simply not (...) (20 years ago, 12-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | application termination
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| Hi, what is the magic in LegOS to quit the application so that it can be restarted again? In some demos it works, but the same mechanism (i.e. 1 stopper process that kills the other on [run] button) quits the program, but the display says some (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Programming, NQC and the RCX
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| (...) Rememeber to count all local variables, since they are not really local in RCXCC. Total number of usable variables are 32 for RCX 1.x. But I think the compiler will give you error for using more than 32 variables. If it is during download, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Problem with BrickOS and USB tower from Linux
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| I've got NQC, with the USB IR tower, working on my Linux laptop. Now I want to try LlegOS/BricOS. I installed BrickOS (brickos-0.2.6.09.newConf2) with the brickos_cvs_Nov212002.patch from the USB projcet. firmdl3 starts to download the firmware, but (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Spybotics Comms
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| (...) PM (...) Great, thxs for this info :) (...) Yes, that's to be expected, from what I experienced with my MicroScout tests. (...) hmmmm... let's hope someone can do some work around that :) (...) Yes, like I did on a CyberMaster and on a RCX. (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: RIS version 1.5 coming this fall
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| Well, I accually would feel the new RIS 1.5 will be just new firmware and software. Then maybe a different color casing (maybe the iMac deal with transparance) then just a new stamp on the case. Maybe a new feature like Proximity detection or a some (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: show-me training
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| (...) I'm hoping to start trying out the idea in NQC. That means no replacement firmware. However, I want to make it eventually use all five devices that come standard with the Robotics Invention System (two motors, two touch, one light) and it (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Lego challenge !
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| (...) light (...) in (...) able to do anything out of them. (...) Unfortunately, the default RCX firmware doesn't support arrays, either. Also, the assertion that you can simply follow a wall in order to traverse an entire labyrinth actually depends (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Q: Determining state of outputs
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| (...) I'm not the expert on this but... I've been playing with firmware 2.0 and I think you can read the state of your sensors directly. (The same way you read the Battery level? Dave?) Hopefully Dave will answer you for sure. Dean -- Coin-Op's For (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Timing of RCX statements
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| (...) I wouldn't expect Wait() to be very precise. I haven't looked at the firmware in great detail, but generally when writing this sort of thing you set up timing chains. Imagine a function that gets called every 1ms for bookkeeping... void (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: IR download broken
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| (...) The RCX has 5 programs built into the system when there is no firmware... Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Mac IR tower error: No response from IR device
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| I'm trying to download the firmware using MacNQC. When ever I try, I get the problem: Error: No response from IR device. I'm using a Mac beige G3, printer port, OS 9.0.4. I'm using a Palm Mac adapter and the lego cable. The green light does come on (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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